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el-beach.bsky.social
Sacramento resident, Kings fan, proponent of trains
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Kaiser has begun real construction work! It's difficult to see as I didn't want to interfere with their barriers, but they are moving a lot of dirt in pretty much the entire Kaiser footprint area.

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Update on Riverfront construction. This is consistently the most active worksite in the Railyards area:

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The NOAA firings make no sense if you're trying to protect people, but they make a lot more sense if you believe: 1) Privatization of everything is good 2) Climate change is real, but we don't want people to know about it and its effects I think the Project 2025 people believe both.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

SACOG has a "Scoping Meeting" that goes over their 2025 Blueprint, planning through 2050, today at 5:30 pm. I've never joined one of these before, so don't really know what it entails, but here's the link to the meeting if you'd like to join: bit.ly/SACOGMeeting2

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Just gonna say it, California Democrats, both elected leaders and organizations, who are running away from or backstabbing California High Speed Rail because it has bad vibes or they believe the MAGA propaganda are cowards.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'm reading Gareth Dennis' "How the Railways Will Fix the Future" and one of the things he talks about is needing a comprehensive rail plan > project based development. Here are some thoughts I have related to Sacramento 🧵:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I missed this from a few days ago, but it looks like Sacramento City Council approved next steps for BRT along Stockton Blvd. I'd love to see the city utilize the knowledge gained to enhance other Sac corridors. Especially as feeders to the light rail network. star-transit.org/2025/02/21/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Was looking into transportation mode share in Sacramento and saw this graph of commuting and, boy, does this not look good...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I wasn't able to watch the game last night (thankfully), but I did see a number of assistant coaches meeting up with Mike Brown at a bar afterwards lol

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Today, Trump DOT Secretary Sean Duffy announced he is auditing California High Speed Rail, in what is clearly a pretext to revoke $4 billion in federal funding, like Trump did last time. But is Duffy right about HSR's problems? Here's why not: 🧵 www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, uh, fuck this guy and build the rail.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We desperately need more "process-efficiency" bills like this to speed up rail transit projects specifically. Love this idea.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The Green Line to the Airport idea started in 1991. We're never going to get this thing, are we? 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

First time I'm hearing Councilmember Pluckebaum speak at a meeting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Councilmember Talamantes making a strong case for the bridge as designed, imo. Especially considering we would have to start all over.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sparky (who led the feasibility study and whose full name is escaping me) seemed to allude that a transit/ped only bridge may receive some state/fed funding, but it would have to be built by SacRT because the city doesn't build transit bridges.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Overwhelmingly, speakers have opposed car-included bridge. Many of the people in support of the bridge were from unions due to the job creation (understandable). This was called out by 1 speaker who pointed out the campaign financing angle.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Damn, a speaker just called out Mayor McCarty for being on his phone while the speakers are opposing a car-included Truxel Bridge. 👀

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm loving these Strong Sactown speakers at the Sac City Council meeting. Thank you for the thoughtful comments, if any of you are on here!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder in case you are interested and didn't see this earlier.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A good video on where permaculture and urbanism can overlap. We need these thpes of interdisciplinary approaches to city building, imo. youtu.be/ZVsWevJKhZ8?...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment